Keyboard player Jon Lord performing with British rock group Deep Purple, circa 1975 - Fin Costello/Redferns/Getty Images We all know the sounds of the mighty Hammond organ when we hear them, from the ...

Porter Warrington Heaps, an organist and composer whose work on the popular Hammond organ transformed a crude-sounding electronic keyboard instrument into one that could approximate the sounds and ...

Jimmy Smith, the reigning “Emperor of the Hammond Organ” who was widely credited with turning it from a novelty instrument in jazz to a legitimate option for keyboard players, has died. He was 76.

But the powerful, soulful sounds of the B-3 trumped its impracticality. There was no more versatile, expressive electric keyboard instrument made in the 1950s and 60s. And none was more capable of ...

To the casual observer, the piano and organ are pretty similar. The keys are laid out the same, so the skills required to play each instrument are transferable, right? Not so, and if you don’t believe ...

A friend of mine who plays keyboards has just discoverd the mean and lowdown world of the Hammond - primarily by listening to early Charlatans. I want to turn her on to some more stuff cos I think she ...

Nineteen ninety-four marks forty years for Jimmy Smith on the Hammond organ. Although he made the switch from the piano in 1953, Jimmy did not really find his voice on the organ until the following ...

It could have been ten, 20, or 50 - Jon Lord's career was as long-lived as the heavy (metal) rock genres he helped to invent, and that career was peppered with dozens upon dozens of brilliant riffs, ...